:eek: According to the captions there were no “serious consequences”, but that is hard to believe after watching everything that happened after the initial fall!
https://www.facebook.com/mario.alderici/videos/1015801241790626/?pnref=story
:eek: is right!! I sure hope everyone was OK.
holy crap! :eek:
that’s worse than decades ago at aqueduct (i think) where all but one pair ended up in a pileup. (the 77-1 shot jogged around them and won it.) only cuts and scrapes there, too.
but man, that 6 horse is going to be damn sore. 
Interesting to contrast this with the accident posted a bit ago where the outriders caught the horse neatly and it ended calmly.
The bystanders seemed particularly ineffectual there in catching the horse.
[QUOTE=Kwill;8680075]
Interesting to contrast this with the accident posted a bit ago where the outriders caught the horse neatly and it ended calmly.
The bystanders seemed particularly ineffectual there in catching the horse.[/QUOTE]
Hard to catch a horse hauling ass with strapping metal behind him on foot. Wouldn’t want it to be my job. Believe it or not I think it’s much easier to catch a horse when you’re an outrider than on foot.
So glad all involved are okay.
Aww that’s pitiful, and miraculous.
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Hard to catch a horse hauling ass with strapping metal behind him on foot. Wouldn’t want it to be my job. Believe it or not I think it’s much easier to catch a horse when you’re an outrider than on foot.
So glad all involved are okay.[/QUOTE]
By the 3rd collision he/she appears to have lost all bridlework—a mounted crew wouldn’t have had any luck either without serious lasso work. Scary for sure.
Bridle gone, broken buxton . . .total nightmare! That poor horse completely lost it’s mind. I’ve never seen one spooked that badly, though there could have been a mess at our local track one night when a horse got lose, managed to get up in the grandstand parking lot, sideswiped a police car and took off down the road infront of the track. Fortunately it was caught without hurting anyone.
Still don’t think this was quite as bad as a couple of accidents when the start-cars spun out and took out most of the field. I love harness racing but when it goes bad it’s horrible!
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Still don’t think this was quite as bad as a couple of accidents when the start-cars spun out and took out most of the field. I love harness racing but when it goes bad it’s horrible![/QUOTE]
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That poor horse OMG!!! I can’t believe he has no injury from all these repeat crashes.
And why did he fall in the first place? It looks like he started breaking / cantering and immediately went down, as if caught in something. Weird.
Any horse racing crash makes my heart sink.
[QUOTE=Kwill;8680075]
Interesting to contrast this with the accident posted a bit ago where the outriders caught the horse neatly and it ended calmly.
The bystanders seemed particularly ineffectual there in catching the horse.[/QUOTE]
That bike could be deadly, no bystanders want to get hit by it.
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That bike could be deadly, no bystanders want to get hit by it.[/QUOTE]
Not to mention, after being whacked in the face by the car thingy (wings?) the horse lost his bridle…
Yikes I could not stand to watch it all. Hate bad crashes like that, I sure hope all were ok.
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That poor horse OMG!!! I can’t believe he has no injury from all these repeat crashes.
And why did he fall in the first place? It looks like he started breaking / cantering and immediately went down, as if caught in something. Weird.
Any horse racing crash makes my heart sink.[/QUOTE]
I am not at all an expert at harness racing but it actually looks like he over-extended and clipped the back of the other sulky?
Good thinking on the van driver’s part to back up and block that opening between the buildings. The horse was headed right for it. Poor guy!
Could this horse be harnessed again, or would he be so freaked by all the accidents to be safely driven/raced?
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Could this horse be harnessed again, or would he be so freaked by all the accidents to be safely driven/raced?[/QUOTE]
Depends on the horse. The Arabs that were in that infamous video from years ago were able to be hitched and shown after. I wouldn’t blame the horse for coming unglued at being hitched again, though.
[QUOTE=jawa;8680810]
Could this horse be harnessed again, or would he be so freaked by all the accidents to be safely driven/raced?[/QUOTE]
Quite possibly. A horse in an actual race, even if it’s a first race, has spent many hours working perfectly normally in harness, has been to the track for schooling races, has qualified, etc., all without mishap. I’d be hopeful that when fully recovere from cuts and bruises he’d be totally fine. And then again there are horses who will hold one horrible incident against a particular job/piece of tack/location/person forever more.
[QUOTE=jawa;8680810]
Could this horse be harnessed again, or would he be so freaked by all the accidents to be safely driven/raced?[/QUOTE]
We had a wreak with a couple different horses, one spooked and dumped his driver when jogging one day, and ended up with just bits of the shafts attached to his harness by the time he was caught! He raced that week. And the filly spun out from under my daughter on Christmas Day last year, ran around the barn a couple of times, just missing the track conditioner, a couple of trucks and cars and trailers and ended up with one of the shafts of the jogger between her hind legs by the time we caught her. She raced the next day. I imagine this one was okay if it didn’t have some injuries requiring treatment.
Bless! I’m glad the horse and everyone else, equine and human alike, that were involved in this mess are okay. That’s a tough critter, that’s for sure! Poor baby!
